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Allobroges
the Allobroges
also: Allobrogum
Gallic people whose envoys at Rome exposed the Catilinarian conspiracy; their disclosure 'by the words of the Allobroges' is recalled in Cicero's verse on his consulship (De Divinatione 1.21).
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.21 by the words of the Allobroges
Envoys of the Gallic Allobroges supplied the written proof that exposed Catiline's fellow conspirators in 63 BC. Cicero's poem treats their disclosure as the providential unmasking of the plot.